This time I am plotting United States GDP as a comparison to my first graph US Stock Market Growth since 1871 in this series. You will notice that the 2009 US GDP dropped to 2005-2006 levels as a result of the recent financial crises.
Log scale version coming tomorrow.

Six real word examples of
exponential
growth in a Powerpoint slide show (3.7 MB) that includes 11 graphs of economic and financial data (linear and log scale). Data is from MeasuringWorth.org, Yahoo Finance, and Irrational Exuberance. Links to the data sets are included in the file. Images can be printed (B&W or color) for handouts.

Real US GDP 1790-2012 (Linear & Log Graphs)

Real US Stock Prices 1871-2012 (Linear & Log Graphs)

General Electric Stock Price 1962-2013 (Linear & Log Graphs)

US Population 1790-2012 (Linear & Log Graphs)

Inflation Index 1774-2012 (Linear & Log Graphs)

US GDP & Population 1790-2012 (Log Graph)

These graphs illustrate historical data series with constant growth rates and data series with changing growth rates over time. In addition, there
is a example
of adding/subtracting growth rates in log
graph using
US
GDP, US Population & US GDP per person.

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